DC vs RCB | Player Ratings - Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer fifties guide Delhi Capitals to 16-run win
Shreyas Iyer and Shikhar Dhawan scored half-centuries for Delhi Capitals to ensure that the home team stormed to a 16-run win against a depleted Royal Challengers Bangalore line-up. Amit Mishra and Kagiso Rabada also performed to the best of their abilities to contribute to the win.
Prithvi Shaw(4/10): The Mumbaikar could make triumphs into a mere formality and at times, survival impossible the propensity for the open space square of the wicket. His 18-run innings is the amalgamation of the two contrasting styles of play and his dismissal - while trying a cut shot against a back-of-the length delivery - acted as a symbolic representation of a promised innings, curtained by over ambitiousness. Â
Shikhar Dhawan (7.5/10): The ball was coming to the bat nicely and all Dhawan needed to do was assert himself early on. After smashing Yuzvendra Chahal to smithereens, Dhawan got back to his zone instantly and ensured that RCB bowlers didn’t have any respite for major parts of it. While Virat Kohli made Dhawan’s job easy by holding back Washington Sundar in the powerplay, considering his problems against off-spinners, the southpaw was fluent in his 50-run innings and gave Delhi Capitals a total to bank upon.
Shreyas Iyer (7.5/10): The Delhi skipper embodies the modern power-hitting game better than many and that too without playing any unconventional shots to go with it. When Shikhar Dhawan ensured a good start for the hosts, Iyer played an innings of admirable audacity that helped him contribute 52 runs off 37 balls. The importance of the innings also magnified a bit with the context that Rishabh Pant failed later in the innings, and Ingram didn’t add much either.
Rishabh Pant (2/10): The base was already set, and all Rishabh Pant had to do was taking that forward. However, a stupendous boundary was followed by a couple of careless drives up front, which eventually resulted in Yuzvendra Chahal snapping him out with a conventional leggie to which the Delhi wicket-keeper played to the wrong line. Mixing caution to aggression would’ve been helpful for him and the team in a big way.Â
Colin Ingram (3/10): When Ingram came out to bat, it was already late and the presence of a set batsman like Shreyas Iyer at the other end meant he had to put his feet on the accelerator instantly. The South African did exactly that and while trying to go for the heavy ending, he ended up moving across the stumps as Navdeep Saini dragged a slower ball to induce a shot which was eventually gobbled up by Washington Sundar. Although the plan didn’t come to fruition, credit to him, that he tried. Â
Sherfane Rutherford (8/10): Power-hitting is no more difficult a proposition for the modern-day cricketers, but Rutherford brought a different style altogether. By ensuring that the drop in intensity in the middle-phase was safely compensated in the last over, where he piled on 20 runs, ironically, most of them through edges. While purists wouldn’t be so happy with the style, it hardly matters if you are adding runs to the board. A 13-ball 28 was the perfect way to silent many.
Axar Patel (6/10): The primary role of Axar Patel in the team is exactly like the Old Bollywood formula movies having Johnny Lever to cover up other actors’ embarrassment. Even on a belter of a wicket, Axar Patel conceded only 26 runs with his same-old flatter trajectory and by not giving rooms to the batsmen to open their arms and aim for the skies.
Kagiso Rabada (7.5/10): The MVP in Delhi bowling line-up, without any doubt. With the new ball or at the death, Kagiso Rabada was exceptional to have a couple of wickets to his name. His swing, when the wicket had very little assistance for it, was just breath-taking and if that was not enough, the South African pace spearhead conceded only nine runs in the last over to help Delhi qualify for the Play-offs.
Sandeep Lamichhane (1.5/10): The lack of grip for a leg-spinner is a huge detriment on any kind of surface, and if that happens to be a North-Indian hot afternoon, well, do serve them at your own peril. Lamichhane was haunted by his own demons and by serving flighter googlies without any real drift resulted in RCB batsmen milking as many as 39 runs in three overs.Â
Amit Mishra (7.5/10): The exact opposite of Sandeep Lamichhane was Amit Mishra. While Nepal’s young leg-spinner was not being able to impart drift to the ball through the air, Mishra gave plenty of them and his rapid revs made him tough to beat. The veteran leggie conceded 29 runs in four overs while sending Shivam Dube and Henrich Klassen back to the hut.
Ishant Sharma(2/10): Well, it was not Ishant Sharma’s day for sure. He was smacked all over as the full balls were taken for cleaners by Parthiv Patel on a regular basis. There would’ve been a lot lesser had Virat Kohli been dismissed on that Rishabh Pant catch, but Marcus Stoinis had some interest in hitting few of them over. Eventually, it culminated with a 10 rpo game for him with one wicket of Gurkeerat Singh Mann.
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